The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Saturday, February 21, 2015

May 29 - June 4, 1948



Saturday, May 29, 1948

Bill home with lame arm, it made him sick. We went over to Bob’s house. Got plants for cemetery. Betty to town in eve with us.



Sunday, May 30, 1948

Rained all day. Bill’s father and mother up in p.m. Uncle Lewis and Aunt Ava called.



Monday, May 31, 1948

Very nice day and hot. Bill, Mama, Betty and I went down to the parade. Dorothea was in it.



Tuesday, June 1, 1948

Very nice hot day. Mrs. Grover and I cleaned all upstairs bedrooms and one hall at Walter’s. Kennard, Delores, Bill and Evelyn called in eve also Bob.



Wednesday, June 2, 1948

We cleaned upstairs bathroom, hallway, living room and dining room at Walters. Nice day. Bill came home from work lame. We got glads and some dahlias set out.



Thursday, June 3, 1948

Nice hot day. Finished at Walters. $17.15. Bill very lame.



Friday, June 4, 1948

Cleaned that Seaber’s, Mabel Grover and I. Very hot. Bill awful lame and sick.


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